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The White Squadron, U.S. Navy – Antique Wall Art

The White Squadron, U.S. Navy, c1891. — historic photograph
The White Squadron, U.S. Navy, c1891.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The White Squadron, U.S. Navy comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The print's record singles out the torpedo boat *Cushing*, named for Lieutenant William B. Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad *Albemarle* in a daring night raid in 1864. The picture groups the squadron's ships in a clockwise arrangement, with the gunboat *Concord* placed in the upper left. The White Squadron, the nickname for the Squadron of Evolution, was the first sizable group of steel-hulled, modern warships of the new American navy, and its white paint gave it the name. Photographers of the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued this view around 1891, sold such scenes to a public eager to see the country's growing fleet.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 14 x 11 in.
Genretorpedo boat Cushing
NotesListed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Copyright 1891 Hart" on negative. Clockwise from upper left: gunboat Concord
SubjectsSquadron of Evolution. Warships--American.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77696

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